Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery
Overview
Provides highly specialized surgical care for liver, biliary, and pancreatic disease, including hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancer, advanced benign disease, and liver transplantation-related treatment.
Key Strengths at Kobe University Hospital
- Extensive experience in pancreatic cancer surgery, including expanded resections with vascular resection when indicated, combined with modern perioperative systemic therapy and multidisciplinary treatment.
- One of Japan’s leading centers for minimally invasive HPB surgery, having introduced laparoscopic pancreatectomy early and accumulated a large case volume.
- Active robotic HPB surgery program, including robot-assisted pancreatic procedures.
- Broad expertise in liver resection, biliary surgery, organ-preserving procedures for selected disease, and liver transplantation-related surgery.
Major Conditions / Services
- Pancreatic cancer and cystic pancreatic tumors
- Primary and metastatic liver tumors
- Biliary tract cancer and complex benign biliary disease
- Selected transplant-related liver disease
Representative Procedures / Programs
- Advanced hepatectomy and pancreatectomy
- Laparoscopic and robot-assisted HPB surgery
- Combined vascular resection when indicated
- Transplant-related hepatobiliary surgery